Saturday 13 April 2013

Functions of BLOG, FACEBOOK & TWITTER.


The accessibility of online media encourages the publics to browsing it more often, because nowadays everyone owns a smartphone which keep them in the loop.

BLOG
Blog plays a big role in a new medium of communication; it also can be a self-fulfillment to a blogger in order to communicate with the viewers by sharing their opinion and thought, blog also can be a platform in starting a new online business. (Barkow, 2004) stated web logs are online personal diaries, seemingly no different from the millions of homemade Web pages we’re so used to stumbling upon. What differentiates Web logs from their predecessors is a common technological framework that allows blog publishers to easily share and respond to postings, creating a massive, self-organizing community of shared interests. Since these communities are full of links, they are extremely search-engine friendly.

FACEBOOK
Whilst Facebook is another communication tools that is capable of giving impact to a million users worldwide, it is a social networking website that allows users to contact with their friends and family vie online and has the impact of sharing thought, opinions, status updates, sharing photos, videos, that a person’s found interesting or amusing. Additionally there are group of people operating business online via Facebook and earning money through it. Hampton (2002) and Hampton & Wellman (2003), who suggest that information technology may enhance place-based community and facilitate the generation of social capital. Previous research suggests that Facebook users engage in “searching” for people with whom they have an offline connection more than they “browse” for complete strangers to meet (Lampe et. al, 2006).


                      



TWITTER
Thus, twitter is a medium of broadcasting a personal thought at the quickest way by tweeting about your daily life, your routine or even retweeting about the latest news or gossips that you grab from other tweethandle. It encompasses interaction by telling the world what you are doing, how? Why? It is a great way for friends and family to keep up with a person’s daily life just by reading through their tweets. Brock (2011) has suggest twitter is great for sending a “broadcast” message to a large number of people, twitter is very fast communication. You can link to a webpage for more video, audio, sign-up and other materials for moving customers up the relationship ladder.



Reference list:

Barkow, T. 2004, "Blogging for Business", Public Relations Strategist, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 40-42. 

Brock, T. 2011, "Twitter vs. Facebook", Agency Sales,vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 53-53. 


Hampton, K. (2002). Place-based and IT mediated “community.”  Planning Theory and Practice, 3(2), 228–231.


Hampton, K., & Wellman, B. (2003). Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet supports community and social capital in a wired suburb. City & Community, 2(4), 277–311.



Lampe, C., Ellison, N., & Steinfield, C. (2006). A Face(book) in the crowd: Social searching vs.  Social browsing. Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 167–170). New York: ACM Press.



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